The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) is a cutting-edge institute addressing global public health challenges through research, translation into policy and education. ISGlobal has a broad portfolio in communicable and non-communicable diseases including environmental and climate determinants, and applies a multidisciplinary scientific approach ranging from the molecular to the population level. Research is organized in the following main areas, Malaria and other Infectious Diseases, Maternal, Child and reproductive Health, Urban Health and Child and environmental health, Climate & Non-Communicable Diseases. ISGlobal is accredited with the Severo Ochoa distinction, a seal of excellence of the Spanish Science Ministry.

Venue:
Barcelona

What We Are Looking for:
ISGlobal is seeking a Biostatistician who is interested in taking over and managing activities of the project BOHEMIA.


Key Responsibilities:
Contributes to study design for project clinical trials and allied studies
Contributes to data management including:
- Database design
- Data flow
- Data quality assurance
- Data cleaning as needed
- Internal data sharing
- External data sharing

Writes the statistical analysis plan for the main work package (safety and efficacy work package)
Contributes, if needed, in the development of the analytical plan for the other work packages (epidemiology, entomology, animal health, economics …)
Performs statistical analyses to help reaching conclusions and making decisions based on the trial results
Contributes to data visualization
Contributes to manuscript drafting
Provides guidance to collaborators involved in data analysis
Proposes different uses for already collected databases
Works with other malaria projects within ISGlobal to generate synergies and advance institutional goals
Participates in internal malaria and/or biostatistics meetings
Creates summaries of project status to present to the Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB)
Attends the DSMB meetings


Required training and experience /Qualifications:
Working English proficiency
Degree in mathematics, statistics, epidemiology, biological or medical sciences
At least 5 years of experience with different types of clinical trials and across the clinical trial lifecycle, including study design, protocol development, data management and analysis
Expert management of statistics software at efficient program level to assure reproducibility of data analysis.
Experience with version control
Experience with data management systems
Excellent communications and collaboration skills, experience working in diverse cultures

Preferred qualifications:
Previous experience in malaria and global health
Previous experience in prevention trials, including vector or vaccines
Working experience in Spanish or Portuguese
Experience with Stata, R, Java or Python
Familiarity with RedCap and ODK